How I Live Now (2013)
Directed by Kevin
Macdonald this film based on the novel of the same name stars Saoirse
Ronan, Tom Holland and Harley Bird. A 16 year old teenage girl from
the US is sent to spend the summer in the English countryside with
her cousins just as WW3 starts.
The first third of
this film is a really bad teen romance with a standard manic pixie
dream boy and the rest of the film never gets to grips with the
darker side of the material. Kids living through WW3 is an
interesting hook but the film never lives up to it's promise sadly.
It also feels like a lot of the character depth that may have been in
the book is dumped out to make the plot fit into a film.
2/5
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